You may picking one based on you capital availability any any other affinities.

I also picked up a home cheaper because the insurance quote the listing agent was giving out was $13.5k and I was able to get it at $6.3k. 

I am trying to help you avoid the traps that all of us have fallen into.Your bravado is wildly misplaced and your biggest problem is that you are ripe for the picking by any guru or JV partner right now because you think you know a lot more than you do and you only want to hear the nice, warm stuff.

I'd be happy to connect you with them to pick their brain!

Meanwhile I see people picking it up within days.What am I doing wrong?

Once you know your goals, you can pick a market that fits the bill.

Picks them up for 10-20k, rehab enough to rent.

Thanks for this suggestion, I follow your posts on BP and it has me chomping at the bit to pick up some PR deals.

Aside from COVID hurting our bookings in Mar through early June, business really picked back up this summer.

Hi Carlo,As you may be able to tell from the previous comments, there's so many ways to connect and truthfully all can work - so you just have to pick (or do all) and do them.